Group Title : Director of Missions Papers

Series Title : Inwards Correspondence - General (Rev DN MacDiarmid)

Date(s) : Jan 1945 to Dec 1946

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Item Description : This file contains general Foreign Missions correspondence received by the Director of Missions (Rev. DN MacDiarmid).

Main Topics Include : correspondence from secretary of Foreign Missions for New South Wales Presbyterian Church re New Hebrides; Pacific Christian Literature Society Questionnaire on Current Situation and Future Needs in relation to Missions (1945); Appeal from the National Missionary Council of NZ for an improved financial basis (1945); usage of Missionary Education Committee Office in Dunedin (1945); usage of Missionary Manses in Auckland and Dunedin; list of Mission publications available on loan; offer to Rev. EG Jansen to act as Young Men's Bible Class Union "Own Missionary" in China to replace Rev. H. Davies (1946); letters of condolence on death of Mrs A. Muir (1946); consideration of suitable applicants as lecturer at Union Theological College, Canton, with reference to Prof. JA Allen, Rev. HJ Ryburn, and Rev OT Baragwanath (1946); report of the work of the "Youth of the Church Committee" Auckland Executive including recommendations for future work (1946); correspondence from Rev AA Brash applying for lecturer's position at UTC, Canton (1946); need for a men's and women's residential university hostels in Auckland (146); procurement of wireless sets for New Hebrides missionaries (1946); travel arrangements for missionaries returning to the mission fields and difficultees of obtaining post-war passages (1946); Bible Class Union pamphlet "The Forward Move" detailing future aims of the movement (1946); Presbyterian Womens Missionary Union (PWMU) executive minutes 4/2/1946 to 2/9/1946; copy of suggested new constitution for the National Missionary Council in NZ (1946).
 

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